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Mr. Stearns is a member of the Greek letter Society of Chi Psi of Amherst College, of the University, Algonquin, Massachusetts, Merchants, Middlesex and Republican Clubs of Boston, and of the University and Bankers Clubs of New York, the Brae Burn Country Club, Wianno Club, Corinthian Yacht Club ; member of the Executive Committees of the American Trust Co. and the Morris Plan Bank of Boston, and is a member of the Board of Management of the Children's Hospital, the Red Cross Society, the North American Civic League for Immigrants and a member of the Tercentenary Commission to have charge of the celebration of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Landing of the Pil- grims at Plymouth.
Mr. Stearns was also an Alternate-at-large from Massachusetts to the Republican Na- tional Convention at Chicago in 1916.
He married Emily Williston Clark, and has three children: Foster Stearns, who is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard College and is now Librarian of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts ; Mrs. Henry W. (Emily) Giese, of Wellesley Hills; and Mrs. Francis ( Louisa) Prescott, of Grafton, Mass.
Mr. Stearns resides on Park Street, Newton.
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H. W. CROOKER
Of the firm of Thomson-Crooker Co., one of the large shoe manufacturers of Boston, was born in Brooklyn, New York.
He is a member of the Brae Burn Country Club, Newton Club, New England Shoe & Leather Association, and the Chamber of Commerce of Boston, and resides on Highland Street, West Newton, with his family, consisting of a wife and two children.
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JOSEPH B. SIMPSON
President of the Simpson Bros. Corporation, one of the largest firms engaged in the concrete business in New England, was born at Sullivan, Me., March 15, 1851.
He was educated in the Common and Normal schools, and has been actively engaged in the contracting business all his life.
He is a member of the Brae Burn Country and Hunnewell Clubs and of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and Boston City Club.
Mr. Simpson is married and resides with his wife and daughter on Hunnewell Avenue, Newton, Mass.
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ABBOTT BARNES RICE
One of the leading merchants of Boston, was born at Hopkinton, Mass., April 17, 1862. He was educated in the public schools and at Brown University, Class of 1884, and then entered business life in Boston. Mr. Rice is treasurer of the Matinee Waist Co. of Glen Falls, N. Y., treasurer of the "Tremont Stores", and manager and treasurer of the Glen Shirt & Collar Co. of Boston, besides being interested financially in several other large business corporations.
Mr. Rice has served as an alderman of the city of Newton for three years, 1913-14-15, and is a member of the Minimum Wage Board as a representative of the retail trade.
He is a member of the Boston City Club, Boston Chamber of Commerce, Middlesex Club, Unitarian Club, Dalhousie Lodge of Masons, Newton Royal Arch Chapter, Royal Arcanum, Playground and Social Service League, and a member of the executive com- mittee of the Boston Brown Alumni Association.
Mr. Rice has travelled extensively in foreign countries, where he has taken a special interest in social and civic conditions.
He is married and has three sons, Adams T. Rice, Brown 1915, Willard W. Rice, Harvard, 1918, and Laurence B. Rice, Yale, 1919. He resides on Summer Street, Newton Centre.
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FREELAN OSCAR STANLEY
President of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, was born at Kingfield, Maine, June 1, 1849. He was educated in the common schools, at Farmington Normal School, Hebron Academy, and attended Bowdoin College for one year and a half.
Besides his business interests in the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, Mr. Stanley is President of the Estes Park (Colorado) Bank, and President of the Trustees of Hebron Academy.
He is a member of the Hunnewell Club of Newton, the Economic Club of Boston, and the Metropolitan Driving Club of Greater Boston.
Mr. Stanley is married and resides with his wife on Waverley Avenue, Newton.
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HARRY FLETCHER MORSE
New England manager of the Employers Liability Assurance Corporation of London, was born at Lowell, Mass., July 17, 1860. He graduated from the Watertown High School at the age of sixteen and after preparing for college, decided to enter business life. Mr. Morse is one of the most prominent underwriters in Workmen Compensation, Liability and Casualty insurance.
He is a member of the Boston Art Club, the Brae Burn Country and Hunnewell Clubs and Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Morse is married and resides on Shorncliffe Road, Newton.
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HENRY FREDERICK LESH
Was born at Tannersville, Munroe County, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1875. He was edu- cated in the Newton Public Schools and is a graduate of the Newton High School.
Mr. Lesh is a member of the leather firm of Kistler, Lesh & Company, with tanneries in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and North Carolina. He is president of the National Association of Tanners and is a member of the Brae Burn Country, Woodland, Newton Golf Clubs, the Hatherly Club of North Scituate, Dalhousie Lodge of Masons, Newton Royal Arch Chapter, Gethsemane Commandery, Knights Templar, and of Alleppo Shrine.
He is married and resides with his wife on Hancock Avenue, Newton Centre.
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HOWARD PENDLETON CONVERSE
The senior member of the firm of H. P. Converse & Co., constructing engineers, which built the Commonwealth Pier and other notable structures, has been a resident of Auburn- dale for many years, where his home is on Woodland Road. Mr. Converse was born in Columbus, Ohio, July 4, 1866 and was educated in the public schools of Columbus and at the Ohio State University.
He was a member of the Board of Aldermen of Newton in 1906-1907 and 1908 and served as a representative in the General Court in 1909. Mr. Converse is a member of Dal- housie lodge of Masons, the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, and the Exchange and Engineers Clubs of Boston. He married Miss Ida Burnside Van Wagenen in 1900.
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EDMUND I. LEEDS
Member of the firm of Brainerd & Leeds, one of the well-known firms of architects in Boston, was born in Newton May 6, 1873. He received his general education in the Newton grammar and high schools. His professional work was done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris where he was a member of the Atelier Pascal. This training has been supplemented by several extended trips abroad. Mr. Leeds is a member of professional societies such as the American Institute of Archi- tects and the Boston Society of Architects. He has also done some special work in the Na- tional Fire Prevention Association.
He is a member and loyal worker in the Eliot Congregational Church and a Mason, having taken his degrees at the Dalhousie Lodge of Masons, Newton Royal Arch Chapter and Gethsemane Commandery, Knights Templars. He resides on Park Street, Newton with his wife, who was Miss Alice Marshall, and their three children.
Brainerd & Leeds. of which he is a member, are the architects of the Newton Y. M. C. A. and of Y. M. C. A. buildings at Grinnell College, Lawrence, Mass., and Somerville, Mass. They have designed many school buildings, among which are the high school build- ings at Barre, Vermont, Claremont, N. H., Billerica and Belmont, Mass. ; the Normal School group of buildings at Keene, N. H. ; grade schools at Malden, Swampscott, Lexing- ton, Waltham and Belmont and public buildings such as the N. E. Historic and Genealogi- cal building and the Ford Building, New England Home for Little Wanderers ; churches at Medford, Waterville, Maine, Westerly, R. I., the Chapel of Grinnell College and, for the Salvation Army, the People's Palace in Boston, the citadel in Cambridge and a head quarters building at Hartford. Besides they have designed many residences in Newton and elsewhere.
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JOHN PELTZ EUSTIS
Was born at Burlington, Iowa, July 7, 1858, and educated in the public schools at Portland, Maine.
He is the founder and treasurer of the J. P. Eustis Manufacturing Company of Cam- bridge, Mass., manufacturers of brass goods under the trade mark of "The Brasscrafters." Mr. Eustis has been granted upwards of one hundred patents by the United States Patent Office, a large portion of which have proved to be of commercial value and in addition to those used in his own business, many of his patents, designs and mechanical ideas are used by other manufacturers.
Mr. Eustis is a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, Boston Yacht Club, Hunnewell Club, Dalhousie lodge of Masons, Newton Royal Arch Chapter, and Geth- semane Commandery, K. T.
He married Miss Mary M. Warner, of Florence, Mass., in 1891, and they have two sons, Warner and Grant B. Eustis. The family residence is on Washington Street, Hunne- well hill, Newton. 1
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WILLIAM MARK NOBLE
A well-known lawyer of Boston and a member of the firm of Noble, Davis and Stone, was born in Springfield, Mass., February 27, 1865, and comes from notable ancestry. His father was of good old English stock, the names William Mark being traceable in the family as far back as the year 1630. On his mother's side, Mr. Noble is allied to the Bur- lingame family, and to Hon. Anson Burlingame, at one time United States ambassador to Russia.
Mr. Noble was educated in the Chelsea High School, with private study in the classics, and received the degree of L.L.B. from the Boston University Law School.
He was for several years president of the Newton Centre Improvement Association and is a trustee of the Newton Centre Savings Bank, and a trustee and director in other corporations and estates.
He married Miss Marion W. Rising and they have three children, William Mark Noble, Jr., Margaret Noble, and Arthur D. Noble.
Mr. Noble resides on Bracebridge Road, Newton Centre.
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HANS C. HANSEN
One of the best known business men of Boston, and founder of the H. C. Hansen Type Foundry, was born at Sandeford, Norway, in 1845, and graduated from Technology at Horton in the same country in 1866. In 1868 he came to Boston. . Starting with a two-foot rule and a limited capital, in 1872, and with five competing concerns in Boston, Mr. Hansen established his own foundry, the only one now remaining which does all its manufacturing in Boston. He designed, drafted and constructed labor-saving machines which were used even in Germany, and he possessed an inventive genius which brought manufacturers to him for advice. He took a foremost position as the inventor of brass rules, and starting when experts were few, and with a principle never to take them from other foundries, he selected intelligent young men who have become experts under his instruction.
Among Mr. Hansen's first inventions for the benefit of the printing industry was making steel-cutting dies for use on the printing press. Numerous inventions followed, which are now well-known to printers-inventions many of which are now in use in com- peting foundries, and in the foremost type foundry in France. Mr. Hansen had inventions in France, Germany, England, Canada and the United States.
He was a member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, the Franklin Typographical Society, the Odd Fellows, Boston City Club, Unitarian Club of Newton, Hunnewell Club, the Viking Club and the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Hansen died at his home on Hunnewell Avenue, Newton, on January 24, 1916, and is survived by a widow, two sons, H. Alfred Hansen of Auburndale, and L. A. Hansen of Newton Highlands, and a daughter, Mrs. Sidney Curtis of Belmont.
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WINFIELD SCOTT SLOCUM
For many years, the city solicitor of Newton, was born at Grafton, Mass., May 1, 1848, the son of William F. and Margaret (Tinker) Slocum. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Amherst College, after which he studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1871 and to the United States Circuit Court bar in 1875. In 1871 he formed a partnership with his father, which continued until the death of the elder Mr. Slocum in 1896.
In 1881 he was elected city solicitor of Newton and served continuously until his death on January 29, 1915. His position as attorney for the city of Newton involved his making a specialty of municipal law. He served as a member of the school committee of Newton in 1874-77, and was a member of the Legislature in 1888 and 1889.
He was a Past Master of Dalhousie lodge of Masons and during his long and useful life was a prominent member of Central Congregational Church of Newtonville, of which he had been a clerk, deacon and moderator for many years. He was also interested in the Boston Congregational Club, the Massachusetts Club, the Boston Athletic Association and the Newton Club, and was a member of the Boston City Club.
He was twice married, his first wife being Miss Annie A. Pulsifer of Newton, by whom were three children, Agnes E., Charles P., and Winfield S. Slocum, Jr. His second wife, who survives him, was Miss Sarah M. Barry, of Boston.
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BERTRAND EUGENE TAYLOR
Was born at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, April 29, 1856, and died at his home in Newton Centre, August 23, 1909. Mr. Taylor was for many years one of the leading architects of Boston and vicinity, having been a member of the firm of Rand and Taylor from 1881 to 1895 and from that time until his death, a member of the firm of Kendall, Taylor and Stevens.
His education was received at St. Johnsbury Academy, where he graduated with honors in 1877. He then took special studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while engaged in architecture in the office of Ober and Rand. He also studied special work on two extensive trips to Europe, and became deeply interested in hospital and sanatoria work. In this connection he was well known throughout Vermont, New Hampshire and Massa- chusetts.
Mr. Taylor was a member of the First Congregational Church of Newton Centre, a thirty-second degree Mason, with membership in Dalhousie lodge, and of the I. O. O. F. He was one of the founders of the Boston Architectural Club, one of the first members of the Newton Club and was also a member of the National Arts Club of New York and of the Sons of the American Revolution.
He married Miss Helen Clifton Payne in 1883 and they have had five children, Ruth, Dorothy, Clifton, Aldrich and Marjorie.
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WILLIAM GIBSON BELL
President of the William G. Bell Company, manufacturers of refrigerators and store fixtures, was born at Hancock, N. H. February 1, 1839 and died at West Newton, his home for thirty years, on October 27, 1915.
Mr. Bell was educated in the public schools of New Ipswich and later entered business life in Boston, where he originated the well known "Bell's Spiced Dressing" a preparation which he manufactured for forty years.
He was an active member of the Second Congregational Church of West Newton, of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, New York Produce Exchange, the Boston Congrega- tional Club and King Solomon Lodge of Masons of Somerville.
He married Miss Mary H. G. Whitney and they have two children, a son, Mr. Alfred W. Bell of West Newton and a daughter, Mrs. Douglas Crook of Allston.
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FRANK BLAKE HOPEWELL
The son of John and Sarah W. (Blake) Hopewell, was born at Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 5, 1873. After receiving his education in the grammar and high schools of Cambridge, Channey Hall and Kendall School, he entered upon a business career.
He is now a member of the firm of L. C. Chase & Co. of Boston, treasurer of Sanford Mills, Sanford, Me., treasurer of the Holyoke Plush Co., Holyoke, Mass., director of the Reading Rubber Mfg. Co., Reading, Mass., director of the First National Bank of Boston, and director of the Sanford Trust Co., Sanford, Me.
Mr. Hopewell is a member of the Brae Burn Country and Hunnewell Clubs of New- ton, Exchange and Boston City Club, Boston Athletic Association, Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead.
He married Miss Helen I. Clark and they have one child, John Clark Hopewell. They reside on the corner of Park and Church Streets, Newton.
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FRANK HOPEWELL
A successful merchant and manufacturer of Boston, was born in 1859, at Shelbourne Falls, Mass., the son of John and Catherine Hopewell.
He passed through the various grades of the public schools in Springfield, Mass., and studied three years in the Springfield Collegiate Institute.
Mr. Hopewell began his business career in New York in 1880, and shortly afterward entered the employ of L. C. Chase & Co. of Boston, of which he is now managing partner. He was Treasurer of Sanford Mills, Sanford, Maine, and of Holyoke Plush Co., Holyoke, Mass., for many years,-as well as a Director of the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, all of which positions he resigned in 1913.
Mr. Hopewell is a Director of Sanford Mills, of the Holyoke Plush Co., and the Reading Rubber Mfg. Co. He is a member of the Brae Burn Country Club, and the Bos- ton Athletic Association.
He married Mrs. Helen Buckman Crosby, and lives in an attractive home at the corner of Waverley Avenue and Farlow Road, Newton.
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EDWARD RAY SPEARE
President of the Alden Speare Sons' Company was born in West Newton, September 21, 1872 and educated in the Newton High School and at Boston University. Besides his business connections as president of the Alden Speare's Sons Company, founded by his father, Hon. Alden Speare, second mayor of Newton, Mr. Speare is president of the Exolon Company, president of the Milton Chemical Company, treasurer of the Economy Food Products Company, treasurer of the Atlantis Press, a director in the Central Trust Company of Cambridge, and a trustee of Boston University.
He is also a member of the Masonic order, of the Algonquin Club, the Exchange Club, the Boston Athletic Association, Longwood Cricket Club, Brae Burn Country Club, Hollywood Club, and the Newton Centre Squash Tennis Club.
Mr. Speare married Miss Dorothy Simmons of Cambridge in 1894 and they have three children, Albert R. Speare, Dorothy Speare, and Virginia Speare. They reside on Montvale Crescent, Newton Centre.
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THOMAS FRANCIS BAXTER
A prominent banker of Boston, was born Nov. 1, 1869, at Brookline, Mass. After passing through the Brookline public schools he became connected with the banking firm of Bond & Goodwin and is now senior partner of this concern with offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Minneapolis.
Mr. Baxter married Miss Mabel Smith of Roxbury, Mass., in 1898 and they have three children, Thomas F. Baxter, Jr., Miss Ruth Baxter, and Philip Norman Baxter. They have a beautiful home on the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Bristol Road, West Newton.
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RESIDENCE OF G. DUTHIE STRACHAN, WABAN HILL ROAD, CHESTNUT HILL.
RESIDENCE OF ROBERT M. CLARK, HOMER STREET, NEWTON CENTRE.
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THOMAS PHIPPS CURTIS
Was born at Quincy, Mass., May 16, 1850, the son of Lewis ( 1818-1897) and Emeline M. (Phipps) Curtis, and is a great grandson of Mehitable Adams, a first cousin of John Adams, second president of the United States, and a second cousin of John Quincy Adams, also a president of the United States. Mr. Curtis was educated in private schools and for forty years has been connected with the firm of Deering, Milliken & Co. of New York and Boston, dry goods commission merchants, as salesman and partner. Mr. Curtis is also treasurer of the George W. Olney Woolen Co. of Cherry Valley, Mass., president of the Mayo Woolen Co. of Millbury, Mass., president of the Cascade Woolen Co. of Oakland, Me., and managing director of the Madison Woolen Co. of Madison, Me.
He is a Mason, a Knight Templer since 1873, and a member of the Grafton Club, Merchants Club of New York, Middlesex Club of Boston and of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
He married Miss Ellen F. Hobbs, March 24, 1890 and they have one son Lewis Foster Curtis.
Mr. Curtis has made his home in Newton Highlands for the past twenty-five years, where he has a handsome residence on Lake Avenue.
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RESIDENCE OF FRED S. CARR, WABAN HILL ROAD, CHESTNUT HILL.
RESIDENCE OF EDWARD E. ELMS, HUNNEWELL AVENUE, NEWTON.
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CHARLES HENRY BRECK
President of the Joseph Breck & Sons Corporation of Boston, was born in Brighton, Mass., July 8, 1850, and educated in the public schools and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as by travel at home and abroad. Mr. Breck is treasurer of the Breck-Robinson Nursery Co., treasurer of the New England Iron and Hardware Asso- ciation, a director of the Fourth-Atlantic National Bank of Boston, a director of the Whole- sale Seedsman's League and a trustee of several estates. He is also a member of the Brae Burn Country Club and of the Lake Placid Club. Mr. Breck married Miss Marion Agnes Adams and they have three children, Mrs. John Benbow ( Frances Elizabeth ), Mr. Charles Henry Breck, Jr., and Mr. Luther Adams Breck. Mr. and Mrs. Breck reside on Fairmont Avenue, Newton.
The business of Joseph Breck & Sons Corporation of which Mr. Breck is president, was founded in 1822 and since 1830 has been continuously carried on by Joseph Breck and his descendants. Mr. Breck and his brother Mr. Joseph Francis Breck, treasurer of the Corporation, are of the third generation in the business and two members of the fourth generation, great grandsons of the founder, are now taking an active part in the manage- ment of its affairs ..
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RESIDENCE OF ALONZO N. BURBANK, PARK AVENUE, NEWTON.
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RESIDENCE OF RICHARD G. ELKINS, HIGHLAND STREET, WEST NEWTON.
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HUBERT GEORGE RIPLEY
Architect, was born in Melrose, Massachusetts. Graduate of the Melrose Grammar and High Schools, and the Architectural Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of '90. After a period of study in Europe, he is now engaged in pro- fessional practice as a member of the firm of Fisher, Ripley & Le Boutillier, of Boston.
He is consulting architect to the Boston Art Commission, member of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston Society of Architects, the Boston Architectural Club, the Technology Club of New York, and the Newton Club.
Mr. Ripley is married, has one son, and lives on Birch Hill Road, Newtonville.
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RESIDENCE OF CLARENCE C. COLBY, FARLOW ROAD, NEWTON.
RESIDENCE OF WILLIAM K. COREY, COMMONWEALTH AVENUE, AUBURNDALE.
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FRED SUMNER CARR
A successful manufacturer of Boston, was born April 22, 1857 at West Newbury, Mass. He received his early education in the public schools and then carried on his father's business of carriage manufacturing for four years : later he became connected with a whole- sale carriage goods house with whom he remained fourteen years as traveling salesman and in 1908 established himself in business in manufacturing automobile and carriage mater- ials and has since built up a large and profitable industry :- a rubber mill being built in Framingham, Mass., in 1911, for rubberizing cloth and another mill being built in 1913, in Tilbury, Ontario, for the same purpose.
In 1910 the manufacturing of patented fasteners was commenced and three years later, in 1913, a new factory in Cambridge was built to take care of the growing business.
Mr. Carr, in 1914, purchased a half interest in the-G. W. J. Murphy Co. of Merrimac, Mass., of which company he is now the president. This company is the largest manufac- turer of button fasteners in the world.
Mr. Carr is also president of the following companies which bear his name :- F. S. Carr Co., Boston, Mass., F. S. Carr Rubber Co., South Framingham, Mass., F. S. Carr Rubber Co. of Canada, Granby, Quebec, and the Carr Fastener Co. Cambridge, Mass.
He was married in 1877 to Miss Sarah J. Emery of Lynn, Mass., by whom he had three children, Miss Adelaide F. Carr, Ralph W. Carr and Moses F. Carr.
In 1905 he married Miss Ida M. Nason of Limerick, Me. and they live in a beautiful home on Waban Hill Road, Chestnut Hill.
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RESIDENCE OF ALBERT W. ELLIOTT, BERWICK ROAD, NEWTON CENTRE.
RESIDENCE OF FRANK J. HALE, BIGELOW ROAD, WEST NEWTON.
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NATHAN HEARD
Senior member of the law firm of Heard, Smith & Tennant of Boston and Washing- ton, D. C., specializing in Patents, Patent causes and trade mark matters, was born at Omaha, Nebraska, January 26, 1872, and is descended from Luke Heard, who came from England in 1630 and settled in Ipswich, Mass.
After a preparatory education in the schools of Worcester, Mr. Heard received the degree of B.S. from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1893, LL.B. in 1896 and LL.M. in 1897 from the National University Law School and M.P.I. from George Wash- ington University in 1898. He was also an examiner in the U. S. Patent Office from 1894-1899.
Mr. Heard was for several years on the Republican City Committee and in 1910 to 1912 a member of the Newton Board of Aldermen.
He is a member of the Tuesday, Eight O'Clock, Civic, and Golf Clubs of Newton and is actively interested in Eliot Church. He is also a member of the Boston City Club, Ex- change Club, Massachusetts Club, Appalachian Mountain Club and the Chamber of Com- merce of Boston, and the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C. Mr. Heard is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Courts of the United States, and of the Massachusetts and of va- rious Federal Courts, of the American Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, American Patent Law Association and American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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